Day two was definitely adventurous. We started out with breakfast which was great. Mark and I just want to say a big thank you to Craig & Martha for giving us the dutch oven! It came in handy making Monkey Bread on Saturday morning (And cobbler on Friday night). Yummy! We walked around with the kids and ate a late lunch since we all had a late breakfast. After lunch, we split up and some of the kids went fishing with Missy and Hal and the rest went with us on a nature hike. We visited the nature center and then took off on a trail. Liam fell asleep after a few steps on the trail. Halfway through it, Ace decided to sleep. He went from me to Mark! We gathered back at camp for a little nap and quiet time. While some adults napped, the kids and I watched the first three quarters of the Alabama game (glad we didn’t see the last quarter). That was thanks to a Christmas present from my parents to Mark of a little lantern/tv/radio/siren. We ate supper and then headed to the beach house in the park to attend the Fall Festival and then back to the campsite for much needed rest. I’ll just show the pictures for most of the story and then finish up at the end of the pictures.
Playing Duck Duck Goose!
On our hike. I was trying to get all the beautiful colors in this tree but couldn’t get much. That’s Mark with Liam in the shadow.
A cool picture of the sun through the treetops!
Zoe an dAce taking a break (before he fell asleep of course).
Our goofy hiking crew!
Holly and Grace are cats!
Thomas with a spider on his face.
Miss Nicole the Cat!
Zoe’s butterfly!
Okay, so here’s the rest of the story. See Ace’s lovely Animal Crackers?! Yea, well, we got to see all of them again (along with a hot dog) on Sunday morning. He woke up early during the night and was crying. I heard the “throw up” burp, and told Mark that I thought he had thrown up. When he went to check on him, he didn’t see it, so we thought he was fine but there was a lingering smell. We didn’t connect the smell until about 6:30 the next morning when Mark shifted him back onto his air mattress…yes, it was on everything. We thought, at first that it was because he ate too much (he downed the snack bag of animal crackers in a matter of minutes) but today (Monday) he threw up again and continued to have…hmmm…”whispers” in his diapers! So, he has a stomach virus. He’s eaten a little today and has not had any more “whispers” since before nap time…maybe he’s on the up side of it (The “whispers” thing is an inside joke with our camping friends…sorry, but I didn’t think it would be “nice” to write what it actually was…which was gross).
That’s not all…about 4 a.m. Sunday morning it began to sprinkle on and off. We knew there was a chance of rain but were praying it would hold off until we could break camp. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. About the time that Mark walked out of the tent for me to start passing things to him to go into the car, it started raining a lot! Not pouring but just enough to leak through the rain fly and also enough to soak Mark as he ferryed things back to the van. I got the kids ready and packed up the inside of the tent with Zoe’s help (she put socks on everyone and squished air out of mattresses). After getting loaded up, we raced the kids to the car and Mark helped Craig and Martha load up their tent. Hal & Missy had shuttled their kids to her mom’s and then came back to load up the tent and other things. So, that’s why there are no pictures of day 3 of camping! And that’s the end of our camping adventures for this year. I’m trying to talk some other friends in to going camping in the spring to the beach…we’ll see how that goes.
